HUXLOE HUNDRED 



FINEDON 



it was ancient demesne and proved their right to be 

 quit of toll throughout the kingdom.' The sokcmen 

 of the ancient demesne appear in a rental of the manor 

 in 1423." The manor apparently remained in the 

 crown until King John granted it in 1200 for life 

 at fee-farm to his clerk, Stephen de Clay,* who was 

 holding it in 1209.^" In I2i7it was granted to Thomas 



which passed to their daughter DivorgiUa, the wife of 

 John Balliol.-" From her it went to John de Burgh, 

 grandson of the justiciar.'^' On his death in 1279,'" his 

 moiety was assigned to his eldest daughter, DivorgiUa, 

 the wife of Robert Fitz Walter, Lord Fitz Walter, who 

 in 1283 sub-infeudated their moiety of Finedon.-'' 

 One quarter of the manor was granted to Ralph de 



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Malemains" and in 1218 to William Longsword, 

 Earl of Salisbury,^ who possibly retained it till his 

 death in 1226.'' At some time, however, it was 

 granted to the justiciar, Hubert de Burgh, but after 

 his outlawry,^* it was given to Stephen de Segrave 

 and his heirs. '* Stephen's son Gilbert was holding 

 the manor in 1234, when he was ordered to restore it 

 to Hubert de Burgh.*' In 1241 it was at farm to the 

 men of Finedon," but in the same year the manor 

 was granted in fee to William, son of William de 

 Forz, count of Aumale, and his wife Christina, 

 daughter and heir of the Earl of Chester, in part 

 compensation for her inheritance in the earldom.'' 

 In 1246 they granted one moiety of the manor to 

 Richard de Bolebec,** but retained the other moiety, 



' Cal. Close, 1385-89, p. 408. 



• Add. Roll (B.M.) 38983. 



• Chart. R. 1 John, pt. 4.9, m. 10. 



'° Pipe R. 2 John, m. 4d ; 7 John, 

 m. 21 ; II John, m. i6d. 



" Rol. Lin. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 32oi, 343*. 



" Ibid, i, 364A, 368* ; Pipe R. 3 

 Hen. Ill, m. 7. 



'" G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



'* Cat. Close, 1231-34, p. 567. 



" Cal. Chari.i, 116. 



" Cal. Close, 1231-34, p. 567. 



" .hid. 1237-42, p. 307. 



■» Cal. Chan, i, 262 ; Feet of F. 

 Div. Cos. 26 Hen. Ill, no. 55. 



" Feet of F. Northante. East. 29 

 Hen. III. 



'0 G.E.C. Complete Peerage (New Ed.) ; 

 Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.) 545. 



•■ Ibid. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. I, no. 9. 

 In the inquisition of his lands, only the 

 advowson of Finedon is mentioned, but the 

 manor was mentioned at the time of the 

 redivision of his daughters' inheritance in 

 1282 {Cal. Close, 1279-88, p. 186). 



" Cal. Close, 1279-88, p. 186 ; Feet of 



Kirketon, who held it by the service of a quarter of a 

 knight's fee.2* He demised it to William Bernak, 

 probably only in settlement on Alice de Kirketon.^* 

 Alice may have been identical with Alice the wife of 

 John de Thorp, who jointly with her husband was 

 holding it in 1321.2' She granted it for his life to 

 John de Harwedon, who was the tenant in 1 334," 

 but in 1 341 William de Thorp sold the reversion to 

 Simon Simeon of Grimsthorp.^* 



The other quarter of the manor was granted by the 

 Fitz Walters in 1283 to Ralph Seymour, also for the 

 service due from a quarter of a knight's fee.^' In 

 1 3 10, however, the service had been changed to the 

 yearly gift of a pair of gilt spurs. ^^ Ralph died seised 

 in 1310^1 and alter the death of his widow Alice, who 



F. Northants. East. 11 Edw. I; Plac. de 

 Quo h'arr. (Rec. Com.) 545. 



" Ibid. ; Fit2 Walter's descendant, 

 the Earl of Sussex, held the overlordship 

 in 1609 (Chan. Inq. p.m. (ser. ii), cccvii 

 98). 



«» Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 545. 



" Cal. Itu/. Misc. Chan. ii. no. 445. 



»' Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com. 

 545 ; Feet of F. Northants. Trin. 

 13 Edw. III. 



'* Feet of F. Northants. Mich. 15 Edw. 

 III. «• Ibid. East. II Edw. I. 



» Cal. ;«j. V, no. 186. •' Ibid. 



